What changed for armour in the 2024 D&D rules
This compares the mechanical fields — the ones that change how something behaves at the table. It deliberately does not report that the wording changed: the 2024 SRD rewrote almost every spell description into a new format, so “the text is different” is true of nearly everything and tells you nothing.
A field is skipped where either edition leaves it blank, because that is a gap in the source data rather than a change to the game.
New in 2024 (8)
- Half Plate Armor
- Hide Armor
- Leather Armor
- Padded Armor
- Plate Armor
- Shield
- Splint Armor
- Studded Leather Armor
In 2014 but not 2024 (7)
Absent from the 2024 SRD. That is not the same as removed from the game — the SRD is a subset of what the books publish.